Isaiah 7:14 All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’).
Christmas is a mind stretching season because something happened on the first Christmas that began to change the course of history for all humanity and is still changing peoples’ lives today. The inconceivable happened in a little town in Israel, because God had said it would, hundreds of years before.
Almighty God took on the form of a human being. He became a baby who grew to be Son of Man, as well as Son of God! That was unheard of, mind boggling and so dramatic! A God man! Immanuel!
When the angel told Mary she would become pregnant without a man it seemed totally inconceivable but she believed him and she conceived the inconceivable! The angel told her what God said, she believed it and then received the impossible in her spirit and in her body. She conceived and received Jesus in her womb by the Holy Spirit and what had seemed to be impossible began to grow inside her. Her expectation grew and grew!
I wonder are we expecting anything from God? Have you had a dream, a longing in your heart, but you can’t see any way it could happen, yet there’s still something inside you telling you to believe, to not let it go?
Are we ready to receive the impossible? If I was to ask you what seems impossible in your life because you’ve been waiting and waiting and nothing has happened yet, what would you tell me? Waiting for healing, waiting for a spouse, waiting for children to be saved, waiting for ….what?
Whatever it is that’s in our hearts, God is telling us we can expect it if we’re willing to receive it by faith, like Mary, no matter how ‘out there’ it might look, or how impossible it seems. It’s never too late for God.
This Christmas let’s allow our minds to be stretched even further to receive all God has planned for us, no matter how inconceivable or impossible others may say it is, or it looks like. It’s the season of hope, so allow God to get your hopes up and see what He does.
He is the God of the Inconceivable, the God of the Impossible!😊
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